Charles Littrell's application for a Confederate Pension. He provides proof of his service in the Confederate Army in the Civil War as a servant to his then-owner, Jim Littrell, who served under Lieutenant Harden, Captain Cox, and Colonel Jack...

Lt. Edwin H. Rennolds, Co. K, 5th Tenn. Inf., CSA, wrote this history, of which selected pages - the cover, author image, title page, and four pages honoring the "colored cooks" - are included. The book includes rosters of various Confederate...

Parole of William P. Willilams, private Co 48th North Carolina regiment of Cooks Brigade. The document states that he was a paroled prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. It gives him permission to return to his house and remain...

Special contract beween the Confederate Headquarters Volunteer and Conscript Bureau and H. M. Blake for Blake's slave, Squire, an 18-year-old male valued at $1,600.00, to be employed by the Confederate Army as a teamster. The order is issued by...

This page in Mitchener's diary includes a drawing of the kitchen, in which a large cooking stove is pictured. On top of this image, he has written a number of commonly used phrases, including,"shut the d - ' door!" and "The skillet's dirty again!"...